Classical Chinese - Naiying Yuan, Hai-tao Tang, James Geiss

Classical Chinese

A Basic Reader in Three Volumes
Buch | Softcover
880 Seiten
2004
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-11831-4 (ISBN)
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Focuses on the language, literature, philosophy, and religion of premodern China. This title is presented in three volumes. Volume 1 contains 40 selections from texts written between fifth century BC and first century AD. Volume 2 contains a glossary of unfamiliar terms and names found in volume 1, and volume 3 features grammatical analyses.
Classical Chinese: A Basic Reader is the most comprehensive and authoritative textbook on the language, literature, philosophy, history, and religion of premodern China. Rigorously and extensively field-tested and fine-tuned for years in classroom settings by three members of the Chinese Linguistics Project at Princeton University, it sets a new standard for the field. Volume 1 contains 40 selections from texts written between the fifth century B.C. and the first century A.D., during which the classical Chinese language was fully developed and standardized. These passages, which express key themes in Chinese humor, wit, wisdom, moral conviction, and political ideals, are arranged in the order of complexity of the grammatical patterns they exemplify. Uniquely, each text is translated into both modern Chinese and English. Volume 2 contains a detailed glossary of unfamiliar terms and names found in Volume 1, and Volume 3 features detailed grammatical analyses, in which every sentence in the main texts is fully diagrammed to show the grammatical relations between their various parts.
Four supplementary volumes--an introduction to grammar, readings in poetry and prose, selected historical texts, and selected philosophical texts--will also be available for use in conjunction with the main, three-volume set. There are corresponding exercises for all the reading texts in the Basic Reader and in the supplementary volumes to review and reinforce classroom learning. With Classical Chinese: A Basic Reader, Naiying Yuan, Haitao Tang, and James Geiss provide the definitive new resource for students and instructors of classical Chinese language or culture, one whose impact will be lasting.

Naiying Yuan and Haitao Tang are Lecturers Emeritus in the Department of East Asian Languages, and in the Chinese Linguistics Project, at Princeton University. Tang is coauthor of "Chinese Primer", an introductory Chinese language textbook (Princeton). James Geiss, who earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1979, was a Ming scholar and worked for many years as research associate, editor, and contributing author with the "Cambridge History of China Project".

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.8.2004
Reihe/Serie The Princeton Language Program: Modern Chinese
Zusatzinfo 3 Maps
Verlagsort New Jersey
Sprache englisch
Maße 216 x 279 mm
Gewicht 2126 g
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-691-11831-0 / 0691118310
ISBN-13 978-0-691-11831-4 / 9780691118314
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